poac vs cppan

poac

A package manager and build system for C++ (by poac-dev)

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cppan

Project evolved into Software Network: https://github.com/SoftwareNetwork/sw (by cppan)

cppan C++ Build system package-manager dependency-manager Crossplatform C CMake

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poac		cppan
	Project
2	Mentions	1
899	Stars	106
3.3%	Growth	-0.9%
9.6	Activity	5.4
18 days ago	Latest Commit	30 days ago
C++	Language	C++
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

poac

Posts with mentions or reviews of poac. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Equivalent of Cargo for C++: Poac (author says in-development)
1 project | /r/cpp | 12 May 2023
Poac – a package manager for C++ like Cargo for Rust
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2022

cppan

Posts with mentions or reviews of cppan. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-12.

Which is your most loved feature of C++?
3 projects | /r/cpp | 12 Oct 2021

When I discovered vcpkg I waq very disappointed and started to look for alternatives. I found cppan (https://github.com/cppan/cppan) which was exactly what I was looking for (A bit like npm but for C++). It became sw and I don't really like that name but it's still the best thing I've found for handling dependencies on Windows.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing poac and cppan you can also consider the following projects:

bpt - A C++ tool for a new decade

cmake-cookbook - CMake Cookbook recipes.

hb-appstore - Homebrew App Store - GUI for downloading/managing homebrew apps

Vanilla-Conquer - Vanilla Conquer provides clean, cross-platform builds of the C&C Remastered Collection and the standalone legacy games.

libdnf - Package management library.

sw - Software Manager. Build System, Build System Generator and Package Manager. C/C++ and other languages. Tools and libraries for Software Management.

npackd-cpp - Package manager for Microsoft Windows (GUI and command line utility)

cpk - Light and fast package manager on C/C++ for C/C++/Python/Rust/Js packages

nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager

abseil-cpp - Abseil Common Libraries (C++)

winget-cli - WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

CPM.cmake - 📦 CMake's missing package manager. A small CMake script for setup-free, cross-platform, reproducible dependency management.